We should all thank Howard Dean for coming up with the right strategy and pressing on past all of the DLC nay sayers. Thanks Howard. You’re golden, man.

No more of this behavior from the ReThuglicans or I am going to absolutely die laughing

I can hardly breathe now, ROFLMAO 24/7 I am

hard to eat these days I`m laughing so hard

Wheeeeeeee !

“…a culture of hiring children to do work that requires experience leads to childish results.” – Robert Cahn

nothing to elicit ‘nana hammocks.

oh and some happy doggies.

It’s the happy doggies that are wearing the feature-highlighting banana hammocks.

Oh wait, that’s from a Rick Santorum ad.

Lamont campaign statement on Joe ad:

Is the sunset in Joe’s new ad a fitting metaphor for the the end of his Senate career? Like the rest of the information coming out of his campaign it is full of distortions and lies.

FACT-CHECK
“Joe Lieberman thought you might enjoy a break from Ned Lamont’s negative attacks…”
But Joe Lieberman has repeatedly attacked Ned Lamont.

His campaign commercials have unfairly called Ned Lamont a flip-flopper and criticized him for keeping his family’s tax returns private – even after he released his 2005 returns. Lieberman even lied about Lamont cutting education spending as a Town Selectman. (Lieberman for Senate: “Meet Ned Lamont;” “Flip-Flop”)

“So just sit back, and think about … good stuff. Like Senator Lieberman saving jobs …”
But Joe Lieberman has been a strong supporter of President Bush’s free trade policies, which have endangered and ultimately cost Connecticut families thousands of jobs. He has consistently supported free trade agreements negotiated by the Bush administration. (Andean Free Trade: HR 3009, Senate Vote 130, 5/23/02; CAFTA: HR 3045, Senate Vote 209, 7/28/05)

In addition, Lieberman voted for NAFTA, which led to more than 12,000 jobs lost in Connecticut. (Senate Vote 395, 11/20/93; Connecticut AFL-CIO)

Since Lieberman took office, in 1988, Connecticut has lost nearly half of its manufacturing jobs (from 372,300 in 1988 to 194,400 in 2005), and nearly half of its defense-related jobs (from 96,200 in `1988 to 52,300 in 2002). (Sources: Connecticut Economic Digest, July 1996, June 2006, and February 2005)

“improving health care …”
But Joe Lieberman opposed President Clinton’s health care reforms in 1994. (Hartford Courant, 9/23/94)

Lieberman also voted against increasing funding for the National Institutes of Health by $1.1 billion. (S Con Res 27, Senate Vote 91, 5/23/97)

In addition, he has never fought for Universal Health coverage. There are currently 46 million uninsured Americans, 1 in 9 CT residents lacks coverage, and CT workers’ premiums have risen 4 times as fast as wages since 2000. If this is improving … (Sources: US Census Bureau and Connecticut Health Policy Project)

“and keeping us safe.”
But Joe Lieberman has blindly followed President Bush on Iraq, which has made the country less safe. Less than two weeks ago, a group of 21 former generals, diplomats and national security officials released an open letter arguing that the Bush administration’s “hard line” has actually undermined U.S. security. (Los Angeles Times, 8/16/06)

Paid for by Ned Lamont for Senate, John Hartwell, Treasurer

Don’t confuse me with the facts!

Okay – I see a coordinated theme developing. Traitor Joe has started to use the buzz word “unity” to talk about his approach to working with both sides of the aisle.

My question is – how can you have unity when you’re dealing with a party that excludes Dem Senators & Congressmen from critical debriefs, that will not allow discussion or dissension, that attacks to destroy when there is disagreement? How can you have unity of purpose when the party running all three branches of the country is authoritarian and hell bent on taking over the cliff, in the name of ideology?

How about Ned using one of a sunRISE, the dawn of a new day?

I think that would be an excellent idea. And we should make sure that Lieberman keeps his current ad manager. I wonder how many other slow balls he throws right over the plate.

Cheney to JAG – nanner nanner nanner

Some JAGs are giving a history lesson:

In 1991, when he was secretary of defense, Cheney asked Congress to pass a law to put politically appointed attorneys — including the Army’s general counsel, William Haynes II , who is now the Pentagon general counse — in charge of the JAGs

Congress said – uh, maybenotsogood? Now, though, we have the prospect of Cheney’s lifetime legacy, with not only the current crew, but ex-ers like Thompson, Goldsmith, Comey, Philbin all leaping to validate putting Haynes on the Fourth Circuit. Take a look at the rulings that have come out of Judge Ellis’ court lately and think on the importance of the Fourth.

Ever the optimist, Cheney came right back after the 1991 kerfuffle:

The following year, Cheney’s legal team tried again to take over the JAG corps, this time using an internal Pentagon order

Ah, the internal and exec orders. Sound familiar?

But they rescinded the plan after Congress made it an issue during the nomination of David Addington … to be the Pentagon general counsel.

So fast forward to Cheney as VP.

In May 2003, the administration issued an order giving the Air Force general counsel supervisory authority over Air Force JAGs, essentially a resurrection of the plan Congress had rejected in 1992. And in February 2005, Haynes proposed letting political appointees select who would be the top military lawyers for each service.

Neither plan succeeded. Congress forced the Air Force to rescind its order, and Haynes’ s proposal to change the way the top military lawyers are selected withered after generating an unenthusiastic response from service secretaries.

emph added.

Here’s what pisses me off about Lindsey Graham. He KNOWS better than to go along with the nonsense from Bush and Cheney and he has made some “go to Church on Easter” efforts, but he also KNOWS very good and well that with this administration, every time he bent over backwards to cover their backs – as he’s done a thousand times in the Judiciary committee and on the floor – he shoot the military and this country in the back. He’s smart enough, he knows it, but he caves and caves and caves with no principles. You almost can’t blame the clueless, like Grassley.

Responding to the administration’s attempts to marginalize the JAGs, Congress has tried to strengthen their authority in recent years…

In October 2004, Congress — led by Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and a reservist military lawyer — passed a law prohibiting Pentagon officials from interfering with the JAGs’ ability to “give independent legal advice.” But when Bush signed the law, he issued a signing-statement saying that the legal opinions reached by his political appointees would still “bind all . . . military attorneys.”

emph added

http://bobgeiger.blogspot.com/…..n-and.html

So, Joe’s specific commercial is copyrighted and, excluding “fair use” doctrine, no one else can use it without permission.

That being said, the idea/concept can’t be copyrighted, and if Ned wanted to appear on a beach at sunset saying whatever, he could.